Members and friends of the Freedom Historical Society are invited to gather at the town hall on Wednesday, Sept. 15, for a 7 p.m. presentation by Freedom’s own Alan Fall, “A History of Freedom’s 1830 Meeting House.”
Known by many today as the Masonic Temple which sits atop Schoolhouse Hill next to the town office building, this historic building originally served as a Meeting House and later as a Baptist church.
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